http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/2560.html#
This page provides an entire lesson plan about Black Boy, including the worksheets referenced in the plan. Discussion/Worksheets/Activities http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/tips/t3prod/larsonwq1.html
An example of a teacher's project involving Black Boy and Jim Crow laws. Allows the student to take a firsthand perspective of racial segregation and apply it in a project.
http://www.vocabulary.com/lists/25186
This site includes the vocabulary words from Black Boy, as well as the definitons. This would be an excellent resource to use when beginning the novel as an introduction to the text.
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_B/black_boy1.asp This page gives several in-depth discusses questions that would be appropriate for junior and senior level high school students regarding Black Boy. These discussion questions require thinking on different levels and connecting the literature to works by other African American authors.
http://www.newsreel.org/guides/richardw.htm
This page provides an in-depth set of questions that relate to Black Boy and the social context in which it was written. This would be useful for educating students with a holistic lesson regarding Richard Wright's childhood and the social values that existed in the early 1900's.
http://webquest.org/index.php
This website makes it easy for students to make interactive projects online. An example of a project involving Richard Wright's Black Boy is to make an interactive Webquest in which the participant must survive the every day life of a black person living in the era of Jim Crow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5TvHYgKQ8M&feature=related
An example of a short but powerful project that can be used as an example for projects in which students take their favorite quote from the book and make it artistic, whether through a video, song, painting, poem, or other type of artwork.
Study Guides
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/boy/
This site contains a study guide, including character descriptions, chapter summaries, "Topic Tracking", and other ways that students can review the text.
http://www.schoollink.org/csd/pages/engl/haiku.html
This page provides Haikus written by authors including Richard Wright. These Haiku poems can be used to related Richard Wright's writings and conveyed feelings to the text.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/pubs/A5/wolff.html#g
(Scroll down to Week 3) "Living With Jim Crowe", this site provides discussion questions regarding living in a segregated era in the shoes of a minority.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdM-fueKkY
A short video that compiles information about Richard Wright's time, the relationship between black and white people, and peoples' reactions to his novel "The Native Son".
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/2560.html#
This page provides an entire lesson plan about Black Boy, including the worksheets referenced in the plan.
Discussion/Worksheets/Activities
http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/tips/t3prod/larsonwq1.html
An example of a teacher's project involving Black Boy and Jim Crow laws. Allows the student to take a firsthand perspective of racial segregation and apply it in a project.
http://www.viterbo.edu/perspgs/faculty/GSmith/BlackBoy.html
This site includes discussion questions that can be used to spark discussions and feelings about the reading. This would be useful for small group discussions and reflections.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/richard-wright-born-1908-20286.html
This page describes an activity that can be done with middle and high-school aged students. Students will analyze the character of young Richard Wright from their own perspective and apply his feelings to their experiences.
http://www.vocabulary.com/lists/25186
This site includes the vocabulary words from Black Boy, as well as the definitons. This would be an excellent resource to use when beginning the novel as an introduction to the text.
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_B/black_boy1.asp
This page gives several in-depth discusses questions that would be appropriate for junior and senior level high school students regarding Black Boy. These discussion questions require thinking on different levels and connecting the literature to works by other African American authors.
http://www.newsreel.org/guides/richardw.htm
This page provides an in-depth set of questions that relate to Black Boy and the social context in which it was written. This would be useful for educating students with a holistic lesson regarding Richard Wright's childhood and the social values that existed in the early 1900's.
Examples for Projects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKg6UPHlpwI&feature=related
A dramatization of Black Boy. Can be used as an example for a project involving making a dramatization for the novel.
http://webquest.org/index.php
This website makes it easy for students to make interactive projects online. An example of a project involving Richard Wright's Black Boy is to make an interactive Webquest in which the participant must survive the every day life of a black person living in the era of Jim Crow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSTKTm0pYQ&NR=1
A video of a rap about Black Boy. Can be used as an example for a project involving making a music video to Richard Wright's Black Boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YHOqpME2s&feature=related
A video of a commercial made for Black Boy. Can be used as an example for a project involving making a commercial for the book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5TvHYgKQ8M&feature=related
An example of a short but powerful project that can be used as an example for projects in which students take their favorite quote from the book and make it artistic, whether through a video, song, painting, poem, or other type of artwork.
Study Guides
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/boy/
This site contains a study guide, including character descriptions, chapter summaries, "Topic Tracking", and other ways that students can review the text.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/blackboy/
Contains an in-depth study guide that provides character descriptions, analyses, and chapter summaries.
Activity Starters
http://www.schoollink.org/csd/pages/engl/haiku.html
This page provides Haikus written by authors including Richard Wright. These Haiku poems can be used to related Richard Wright's writings and conveyed feelings to the text.
Related Studies
http://home.gwu.edu/~cuff/wright/bibliogr/wr_bib.html
A brief biography on Richard Wright, including his works and the works that have been written on Richard Wright.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/pubs/A5/wolff.html#g
(Scroll down to Week 3) "Living With Jim Crowe", this site provides discussion questions regarding living in a segregated era in the shoes of a minority.
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/jcrow02.htm
Examples of actual Jim Crow laws that were applied during the time period of Black Boy.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/r_wright/r_wright.htm
A collection of Richard Wright's Poetry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdM-fueKkY
A short video that compiles information about Richard Wright's time, the relationship between black and white people, and peoples' reactions to his novel "The Native Son".